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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy buckle of Medieval date. Length 20.8mm, width 27.5mm and 7.0mm thick. Weight 10.18g.
The pin and hinged plate are missing.
The frame has a narrow oval shape in plan with an ornate outside edge and narrowed offset bar. The outside edge has parallel ribs, two of which form a pin rest. flanked on either side of the ribs, at each corner there is a large plain bulbous knop. Each side of the frame is curved in plan and has convex inner and outer faces. At each junction of the side of the frame and the bar is a sub-square knop. The narrowed off-set bar is D-shaped in cross-section with a convex inner face and a flat outer face.The bar is indented mid-way along its outer face where the missing pin has presumably caused friction and created wear. Opposite this wear, on the inner face, there is a slight swelling. The presence of this swollen feature indicates that the buckle was probably furnished with a hinged plate. The outer face of the bar has numerous file marks. However, there are no file marks on the other parts of the frame.
The frame is in good condition. It has a dark green patina and is slightly worn. There are also tiny patches of corrosion deposits.
Close parallels for this buckle are recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database. For example, see finds:
IOW-09CF95 , WMAS-8CBAA3 and HAMP-C03603
A similar buckle has been recorded by Ottaway and Rogers (Ottaway, P. and Rogers, N. 2002. "Craft, Industry and Everyday Life: Finds from Medieval York". Volume 17: The Small Finds. CBA: York) fig. 1466, no. 13337.
Similar oval buckles with ornate edges, some having plates, have been recovered from archaeological excavations in London and have been dated c. AD 1200 ? c. AD 1450 (Egan and Pritchard 1991, 72-78). | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1200
1450 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Frank Basford | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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